Honors Literature
Independent Reading Assignment Staying Fat For Sarah Brynes The book Staying Fat For Sarah Brynes revolves around a young swimmer by the name of Eric. Eric was also called Moby by his classmates due to excessive weight. Throughout the book Chris Crutcher allows readers to witness a transformation that takes place for Eric not only physically but emotionally. The hundred meter freestyle champion was determined to shed his weight and replace it with muscle. His dream of ending the days students called him Moby was placed on halt due to his commitment to one of his close friends Sarah. Sarah was a girl who lived a familiar lifestyle to Eric. She was constantly teased by the students who attended her school. At a young age Sarah’s face and hands were placed on a woodstove by her dad leaving her with untreated scars that later turned into dead tissue. The scars would later serve as a sign on strength and self-unity .“You learned a good lesson about pain,” when you can’t take it anymore, your body stops feeling for you, (Crutcher89) .

One of the major themes Chris Crutcher portrayed in “Staying Fat For Sarah Brynes is friendship .Eric and Sarah became friends as social outcasts. Both were often rejected by society so they learn to appreciate each other . They discovered ways to understand each other and soothe each other’s pain. They learned to be there for each other through the thick and thin. “Look, if you keep eating like a starving Biafran turned loose at the Food Circus just to prove me wrong about why were friends , you’ll die of a heart attack before your fifteen” (Crutcher page 93). This showed how much Sarah Byrnes friendship meant to Erick, because he was willing to continue to be fat, even though he had always been made fun of, just to prove to her that he would not stop being her friend.

Throughout the book Crutcher takes readers on an adventure of some of the things Sarah faced on an everyday basis. By providing readers...

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...Which is better? Stay fat to keep a good friend or being able to get skinny and make new friends. That is one of the main questions shown throughout the story. In this book “StayingFat for SarahByrnes.” Eric, one of the main characters, is one of the ugliest kids in the school along with a girl named SarahByrnes who has scars on her face from when she ‘supposedly’ knocked a pot of boiling water on her face when she was younger but as we find out later throughout the story we learn that it was really her abusive dad, Virgil Byrnes, is the one that pushed her face onto a hot stove. The main reason Eric is friends with her is because they are both ugly so they just became friends with each other mostly because they didn’t have anyone else. Crutcher makes Eric the main character a troubled, curious, and nice character.
In this book “StayingFat for SarahByrnes” Eric is portrayed as a troubled character throughout the story. When Eric was younger his dad left him. Eric talks about in beginning of the story about how his dad left him and his mom when he was very young and how he hasn’t seen or talked to him since then. Eric having no dad to be his role model or to be someone he can look up to has affected his life and made him a troubled person. Eric’s best and only real friend Sarah is in the...

... How do you choose between the love of your best friend, and their safety? In StayingFat for SarahByrnes by Chris Crutcher, Eric Calhoune, a high school student, must decide how to help his best friend SarahByrnes, who was badly burned by her father when she was a toddler. When SarahByrnes stops talking to get away from her dad who was never caught for hurting her, Eric decides that he must find a way to keep Sarah’s dad permanently away from her. Eric makes hard decisions in order to help Sarah and himself such as telling his coach about her burns, telling Sarah’s father where Sarah went, and also keeping Sarah from running away to a special school in Colorado.
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Reflection Questions
Using the information from above answer the following questions.
1) What impact do you think the globalization of McDonald’s has had on world culture?
The impact I think that the globalization of McDonalds has had on world culture would be since that mcdonalds is slowly increasing in size, creating more cows everywhere. Taken away culturex
1) How does McDonald’s consider the environment in its decisions? Please watch this short Youtube clip before answering http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9ejG83lrX4#t=165
McDonald’s consider the environment in its decisions by placing as much cows as they possibly can to increase the rate of production. This doesn’t help the environment and makes it even worse by creating more methane gas in the air. However, they had sustained the amount of packaging in McDonalds, which allows it to use less paper.
1) In what ways does McDonald’s benefit from globalization?
McDonald’s benefit from globalization is that a lot of people nowadays eat lots of fast food, where McDonalds is a huge thing in U.S. because it is tasty and it is cheap. For one burger in the us, it costs about 3 USD, however in a restaurant, it costs more than 3x the cost.
4) Do you think of McDonald’s as an ethical company? Why or Why not?
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embarrassing self-confessions about foodguzzling and is the
ultimate guide on how to get slim without the gym.
Eat Less Crap Lose that Fat teaches readers
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lose 5, 50, or 500 kilos — losing weight is easy
once you have Sam’s secrets.
Five years ago Sam Pease was fat and frazzled.
None of the popular diets appealed because
they preached the same message give up all
the foods you love and exercise for an hour,
three times a week. That was never going to
work for Sam (she despises gyms and is a
carb-junkie), so she had to find new ways to
trim down.
She spied on slenderellas, followed fatties and
developed a diet that allowed her to eat chips,
cheese, and carbs almost every day. It worked.
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...FATS
HEATHER FRANKS
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August 2, 2012
According to the “Face the Fats” article we have bad fats, better fats, and best
fats. Bad fats are considered saturated fats and trans fats. Bad fat is anything with
butter on it or in it. Examples of saturated fat items would be steaks, loaded potatoes,
and deserts as well. Examples of trans fats would be anything deep fried like fast food
French fries or fried chicken. Better fats are monounsaturated fat and polyunsaturated
fat. These fats are better for you and are not as bad on your hear health. Examples of
better fats would be olive oil and canola oils. Polyunsaturated fats contain omega 3 and
omega 6. In order to find the amount of these fats you should subtract your saturated
and trans fats and you are left with mono and poly. The best fats would be the fats your
body needs like omega 3.
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Significant overall economic differences were present between Haiti and France before the revolutions occurred. France was nearly bankrupt by the time the revolution began. Wars with England and the American Revolution had been extremely costly for France. The nation was in debt and the social elite were not paying taxes to aid the dying economy. The large economic strain on France caused heavy taxation of the bottom social class. In contrast, the economy of Haiti was not a factor that fueled the revolution. The Haitian economy was thriving. Free labor from slaves created a surplus of goods.
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